Friday/Saturday

Rachel here. Friday we didn't get much accomplished per Mother Nature. Here I am on Sunday feeling mediocre at best sitting down and downright miserable standing up. Okay I get it... I need to step back, sit down, and relax. If preschool gets done... awesome... if not...Reese won't become illiterate. If the grout in the bathroom gets scrubbed... awesome... if not... Bryan won't get hit by a bus. (Thank you Andria!) My children will be smart... or hell... I'd settle for just a little bit smartish, and my house will sell... maybe not the first day, but it'll sell. Because of my new found hopefully soon gone crippledness status, I'm not sure where we'll go with the preschool shenanigans. I guess I'll continue to put work boxes together when I can and we'll see where it goes. That's all I can do, and I need to be okay with that. I'm learning. :)

And so... here is what we did Friday... I didn't get many pictures, and I'm not entirely sure what the girls did after 1:00pm. :) I do know Emma Grace threw herself a tea party of sorts and soaked my living room floor. :)And then she walked away from said mess and created a coloring one in the playroom.
I did Reese's number assessment with her. After calling out "12", she was certain it was "20." That's the only one she mixed up... awesome. :) (CoaH) And we move to Saturday. Reese... roll one dice, count the dots, circle the number in the square... then do it with two dice. She REALLY enjoyed this. (CoaH)EG doing her e do-a-dot. (CoaH)Buckles, zippers, and snaps.
Shape silhouette match. (CoaH)
Reese worked on her cutting/pasting pictures. Shape puzzles.
Patterns. (CoaH)Letter tracing.
Bryan was working on windows and screens, and Reese wanted to join in. :)
Then there was some outside time before our annual St. Patty's Day dinner out and our first downpour for the next god only knows how many days.

Wednesday = SO SMOOTH

Rachel here. We started the morning all eating breakfast... even Tiana. She requested Fruit Loops, but happens to be lactose intolerant... so hers was dry. :)We did our regular morning routine... and without me prompting anyone to do anything... this is how the rest of the day went...

Reese practiced tracing her alphabet before preschool.We hung out at preschool for about 45 minutes, so Emma Grace could try every practical life work known to man. ;) Once returning home, Emma Grace requested we string beads.And then she played My Little Ponies...... and cut wooden fruit.She spotted the geoboard, and after a quick tutorial began creating shapes like it was her job.There was also some preschool picking up, lunch eating, and nap taking. Snack at 3:00 followed by extreme outside playing/weed pulling.We ate dinner, and then something happened. The girls began doing activities in their work boxes. I placed them out for them, and let them do as they wished. I didn't tell them they were there, or what needed to be done when... they just went with the flow and did their own thing. It was awesome. And they were SO PRODUCTIVE. Apparently we work better in the evening. :)

EG did some ant size sorting. (CoaH) I asked her which ant was the biggest, she picked, laid it down... then out of what was left, I asked her which ant was the biggest now? We went through all of them like that until there was only the smallest left. She did awesome. She even did it again later by herself. While her second attempt was not as successful, she tried really hard and was SUPER close to having it down.Em also did her first Kumon sheet from her paste and stick book. It teaches kids how to cut things out and paste them in a particular spot. The beginning is just peeling stickers and placing them where they want to... it's really cute, and she seemed to dig it.Reese worked on her letter sounds. Picture with letter match. (CoaH)
Emma Grace finished her first hand print picture for her alphabet book. It's an alligator (still wet)! HA! I found a whole file of them on Pinterest. So cute.Finished with the 'a' and it's been marked off the Chicka Chicka Boom Boom Tree! (CoaH)I also did Reese's lowercase letter assessment with her. (CoaH) She's been second guessing herself with the g & q... and with the b,d,p,q. I called out a letter, and she would say "I think this is the b, but I'm not sure..." and then she would get it. I told her to mark what she thought was right. It's something we'll still need to continue working on, but she got them all correct.Our first week's worth of work!I also placed some boxes out for Emma Grace's new letter 'e', and Reese will be working on number/shape/color reviews.

Reese had to place the correct number of stickers to represent the numeral. (CoaH)Numeral/word work. (CoaH)Emma Grace working with her sand paper letters, sand box, foam letter formation, and chalk board.
This totally cracked me up. Look at her face!Color by number. (CoaH) She was ALL OVER THIS! I haven't gotten her to finish a coloring project in FOREVER. We went over what each number was and what color to color it. She loved it.
Elephant cutting.We ended with puzzles... shocker. :)Tomorrow I hope to get an art project and a Science experiment in... it's supposed to rain!

Wednesday

Rachel here. Today was eventful. For the most part Emma Grace did her own thing but was VERY productive. :)

She started with a do-a-dot for the letter a. (CoaH)
Then she did her lowercase a "collage". I cut little pictures of ants for her. Kid loves her some glue. (CoaH for the a)This was a number match. The head of the ant had the numeral on it, while the hind end had dots showing the number. Of course we're not at all capable of doing this activity in the way it was intended. The nice thing about it though is that it's color coded. Emma Grace matched the colors, and as she did that we counted the dots and read the numerals. (CoaH)This is her... doin' her own thang. Color puzzle.Working with shape pattern blocks.She requested more strips of paper to cut. :)More of the own thang thang. Shape puzzle.Mama/baby puzzle.Alphabet lacing.Mosaic work.Nuts/bolts matching.Reese pick up, lunch, nap time.

Reese really didn't have much work to do today. She had to match the uppercase/lowercase letters. (CoaH)Uppercase letter assessment. I called out letters for her, and she dotted them once she found them. She got them all right! I don't anticipate the same with the lowercase... we tend to get the b and d mixed up along with the g and q. (CoaH)
Then she vegged out for a good 40 minutes on Starfall. EG wakes up, we read ABC by Dr. Seuss, and have snack. On today's menu... ants on a log (which I anticipated a fight over.... so I used chocolate chips and scooped some applesauce JUST IN CASE.) These are Reese's exact words... Me: "Reese do you like your snack?" Reese: "Yeah! It's kind of yucky, but it's okay." :) She then was "nice" enough to "share" her second log with me. ;) HOWEVER, this one... she SCARFED them down like it was her last meal!SCIENCE DAY! A plate of milk, 2ish drops of different colored food coloring, dish soap on the end of a q-tip... dip it in between all of the colors... and BAM! FIREWORKS! :)Then we headed to the playground across the street, rode bikes in the driveway, ran around in the backyard, had dinner, did some of this...... and then watched some books on video until bedtime. BED BED BED BED. I may go there now. :)